Just came across a new Ben Fry (data viz wunderkind) exploration piece.  All Streets is a street map of the lower 48, but one that contains each and every of the 26 million individual road segments found therein.  Check it out and notice how geographical and cultural details emerge from the image.  While you’re at it, don’t forget about Ben’s book on data visualization and, if you haven’t already seen it, check out the related zipdecode.
 

Form what I can tell, you’re going to want to make sure it’s all lowercase…at least if you’re putting it a *nix box.  That’s how it went down for me, anyway.  I had initially named it CrossDomain.xml and was getting errors.  After the name change, things work super smoothly.

I took some flack for my (arguably polemic) thoughts on the Silverlight control templating model so I was happy to see the second to last paragraph of this post where John shares some of my views (albeit less dogmatically).  Granted, he’s among the guys making those decisions so he may have a bias.

More importantly, in spite of a little advocacy for the PART/STATES model in Silverlight, he also mentions that “in the future, when [they] add Triggers into Silverlight,” blah blah blah.  Awesome!  All I heard was the part about forthcoming Silverlight triggers.  Now that’s something we can all get excited about!